International Women's Day: How Teenage Boxer Amaiya Zafar Has Already Made Her Mark in Boxing
Amaiya Zafar is uprooting the boxing world one punch at a time. The 18-year-old fighter from Minnesota first took up boxing when she was 13, after her father suggested that she practice fencing. But Zafar quipped back and told her father that she would rather be “punched” than fence — so he held her to it. “I started watching videos,” Zafar tells PEOPLE. “Then he took me to a real boxing gym and that’s when I fell in love....